Public Health

Wisconsin Governor Finally Moves to Postpone State's Primary Elections, Shift to Vote-by-Mail

Wisconsin Gov. Tony Evers called on the state legislature to meet for a special session Saturday to take up legislation to postpone the Democratic primary along with state elections, set to take place April 7. (Photo: Getty)

"I Don't Have an Option": Facing Critical Ventilator Shortage, Cuomo Orders Seizure of Excess Equipment From Private Companies and Hospitals

Julia Conley, staff writer

"It's not that we're going to leave any health care facility without adequate equipment, but they don't need excess equipment."

Jared Kushner, With No Government Background, Scolds States for Requesting Supplies From National Equipment Stockpile

Julia Conley, staff writer

Senior Advisor to the President Jared Kushner speaks during the daily briefing on the novel coronavirus, COVID-19, in the Brady Briefing Room at the White House on April 2, 2020, in Washington, DC. (Photo: Mandel Ngan/AFP via Getty Images)

"Dilettantism raised to the level of sociopathy."

As Global COVID-19 Cases Top One Million, UN Adopts Resolution Urging 'Intensified International Cooperation'

Jessica Corbett, staff writer

The resolution passed as the U.N. chief declared that "now is the time to...

'The Poor, the Sick, the Homeless, the Children, the Low-Wage Workers': Moral Leaders Demand Coronavirus Relief for Most Vulnerable

'Still Ahead of His Time': New Video Details Bernie Sanders' Prescient Warnings About Pandemic Threat and Need for Medicare for All

Delaying #COP26 Over Coronavirus, Say Green Groups, 'Is Not an Excuse to Postpone Climate Ambition!'

Evidence Shows Trump—Who Says He Knew Covid-19 'Going to Be Horrible'—Let Exports of Key Supplies to Continue

'When We Are Infected No One Is Safe': Nurses Nationwide Protest Over Lack of Coronavirus Protective Equipment

Amnesty Slams Trump for Classifying Gun Stores as 'Essential Businesses' During Pandemic

'Massachusetts Is Not Happy': Warren Condemns Trump for Outbidding States, Seizing Key Medical Supplies

Facing Layoffs, General Electric Workers Demand Company Put Them to Work Producing Ventilators Instead

'We Are Beyond Staggering,' Warns Gov. Cuomo as Coronavirus Overwhelms New York

'The Strike Wave Is in Full Swing': Amazon, Whole Foods Workers Walk Off Job to Protest Unjust and Unsafe Labor Practices

800,000 Doctors to Trump: Heed Expert Warnings and End Dangerous Campaign Against Social Distancing

'Far More to Do,' Say Progressives After House Approves and Trump Signs Corporate-Friendly Coronavirus Relief Act

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Toxic Hot Seat: Your House Is (Still) Full of Poison

Called "horrifying, infuriating, compelling and hopeful," a new documentary Toxic Hot Seat explores the chemical flame retardants - equally likely to cause cancer and not to work - that are everywhere in our lives and houses, and the massive lobbying efforts of chemical manufacturers and Big Tobacco that put them there. With a new Give Toxics the Boot! campaign. "The average American baby is born with 10 fingers, 10 toes and the highest recorded levels of flame retardants among infants in the...